ISSUE11

TOPIC: ISSUE11 - "All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
WORDS: 572 TIME: 01:39:36 DATE: 2008/7/19 0:31:50

Global university, a new kind of university, whose objective is to engage students who are from all nations in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problem, is proposed nowadays. Due to the development of human society, the relationship between all the nations is getting closer and closer, especially in the economics, politics and some significant problems which are concerned by most of nations. All of us in the world, ranged from person to nation, try our best to cooperate with each other. So the global university is a kind of collaboration. However, could global university improve the relation between us and therefore solve these complicated problems? And is it an efficient and necessary way to support the development of a global university in order to achieve our goal?

To begin with, global university would play an important role in solving the world's most persistent social problems. The global university, designed to engage students from all nations, concentrated its goals on prohibition of the drugs, illegal weapons, transnational crimes and so forth. Therefore, nothing can be more important than the cooperation of different nations, which may be improved by global university. Furthermore, the student would use his knowledge received in global university to solve the social problems in his nation. And then the problems in the whole world would be solved, if the ones of every nation have been done.

In the other hand, there are some problems in supporting the development of global university. First, due to the different states of nations, especially the geographical position, the level of economics and so on, not all the nations has the same interesting on the same persistent social problems. For example, except these common problems, such as drugs, transnational crimes, the United States will concentrate more on the terrorism and resources, while the nations in Africa will be concerned more with hungry, war and poverty. So it is hard to involve all the nations' problems in a global university. Second, the global university would be used for certain nations to get its own benefits illegally. The nation devoted more than others will take charge of the university very probably and the primary nation will use the special power to break the balance of students in different nations which caused an opposite effect exactly.

Furthermore, it is unnecessary for us to support the development of global university because we have much more organizations already and there are more efficient ways to solve problems. First, the United Nation is the organization whose objective is to improve the collaboration of different nations to solve the world's most persistent social problems, ranged from the poverty in Africa to the terrorism in the world. In addition, Compared to global university, the UN has more jurisdictions because it is a uniform international organization with members of nearly all the nations in the world. Second, with the development of Internet, students in different nations can communicate with each other conveniently. So we can change the global university to the form of discussing on net, which must be saved a lot of money and involved more nations than former form.

In a word, it is hard for us to decide whether all nations should help support the development of a global university because it has both advantages and disadvantages which are discussed above deficiently. Therefore, we must do more surveys on the global university before we take action.